TY - BOOK ID - 143993291 TI - Poland and the Origins of the Second World War : A Study in Diplomatic History (1938-1939). AU - James, Chris. AU - Shannon, Alex. AU - Kornat, Marek. PY - 2021 SN - 3631841078 3631840519 3631836473 PB - Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, DB - UniCat KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Diplomatic history. KW - 1939-1945 KW - Poland. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143993291 AB - This monograph deals with Polish foreign policy shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. In tracing the diplomatic activity of foreign minister Józef Beck, it discusses six general problems: (1) the Polish political situation under the pressure of appeasement; (2) the project of Intermarium and efforts to implement it; (3) the action against Czechoslovakia and the conflict with the Soviet Union; (4) the Polish attitude towards the German concept of Gesamtlosung in Germany's relations with Poland; (5) the genesis of the Polish alliance with Great Britain; (6) the Allies' military inaction after Nazi Germany's aggression. In these conditions, Poland made four key decisions: it stood against Czechoslovakia, it rejected German demands, it allied itself with the United Kingdom, and it rejected the Soviet Union's claim for the Red Army to march across Polish lands. ER -